The Oxnard City Council tonight will consider reversing a decision by the city's Planning Commission and rejecting a report on the environmental effects of Village West, a 700-unit development proposed for Ormond Beach. City staff members are recommending that the council uphold the decision, which would clear the way for the project at the southeast corner of Hueneme and Perkins roads.

The Oxnard City Council voted after a public hearing Tuesday to approve plans for a 235-home residential development in the northeast end of the city. The Village of Santa Rosa and Village of San Nicolas developments, proposed by the Standard Pacific Corp. of Westlake Village, would contain 193 single-family houses and 42 townhouses. The development would be near Rose Avenue and Colonia Road. About 23 homes, 10% of the total, would be priced so low-income families could afford them.

Firetrucks at Oxnard's six fire stations will now carry emergency medical equipment to help save the lives of heart attack victims after an Oxnard City Council vote Tuesday to buy seven defibrillators. The devices, which can increase survival rates of heart attack victims by as much as 40%, will be in use by the end of August, officials said. The city will spend $53,000 to purchase the defibrillators and to provide training for emergency medical workers.

In an effort to boost local tax revenues, the Oxnard City Council is expected to support a proposal to double production capability at Procter & Gamble's paper plant on North Rice Avenue. The installation of a second paper-producing machine would double tax revenues to the city to more than $600,000 a year. Although the proposal to expand the plant has not been officially announced, city officials are scheduled to consider endorsing the plan on Tuesday. The staff has recommended approval.

About 16 months of unsuccessful contract negotiations are expected to come to an end today when the Oxnard City Council considers a three-year contract with the city's firefighters' union. The contract would give Oxnard's 36 firefighters a retroactive 6% wage increase for the 1989-90 fiscal year and a 5% wage increase for 1990-91, plus an additional 4% increase for 1991-92. Representatives of the city manager and the International Assn.

The Oxnard City Council will consider requiring builders to install water-saving fixtures in existing homes and buildings and to study a water-reclamation program that could include a desalination plant. By a 5-0 vote Tuesday, council members decided to seek advice about the retrofitting plan from developers and officials of other Ventura County cities that have imposed such a program.

The Oxnard City Council, acting on a recommendation by City Manager Vern Hazen, will consider Tuesday appealing a decision by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to shut down its branch office in Oxnard. "If this office is closed, a lot of people up and along the coast will have to travel to either Los Angeles and San Jose to do their business," said Jim Faulconer, the city's community services director.

The Oxnard City Council will hold a public hearing tonight to hear comments on a drought-fighting plan that mandates a 10% cut in residential water use and a 30% cut in agricultural use. The meeting in the City Council chambers at 305 W. 3rd St. will begin at 7:30 p.m. The water rationing plan, which will take effect March 1 if adopted, was initiated in response to a mandate by the city's main water supplier, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

The Oxnard City Council approved a series of fee increases for developers Tuesday, but others were held up until after a public hearing later this month. The council approved a 15.3% increase in water fees, a 17.6% increase in drainage fees and a 2.8% boost in construction fees--all of which were backed by the development community and the Building Industry Assn.